Armed with a new U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Holocaust survivors are taking on foreign governments to force the return of artwork stolen by the Nazis. Obstacles include resistant museums, murky ownership records, less-than-sympathetic European law and, especially, enforcement.

The art world still is abuzz over the overhaul of New York's Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco's de Young Museum's planned reopening in October. But it's not just the coasts that are getting major new palaces for the visual arts. USA TODAY's Gene Sloan looks at five notable projects opening in the middle of the nation.